Just had AT&T Fiber installed - 1Gbps but...

Homerboy

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Can't test full speed. Every speed test I try keeps climbing up (hitting about 500-600Mbps) and then it finishes before hitting max speed. Is there a better/longer speed test out there?

Trying to grab some "binaries" for newsgroups, but that appears to be maxing at 22MB/s
 

repoman0

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Sure your router can handle it? I have Verizon FIOS symmetric gigabit and pretty much any test I run gives me ~940/880. Running it through a pfsense box (VM on a Supermicro server)
 

Homerboy

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Sure your router can handle it? I have Verizon FIOS symmetric gigabit and pretty much any test I run gives me ~940/880. Running it through a pfsense box (VM on a Supermicro server)

Well its the router AT&T provided, so I damn well hope so :)
Usenet binaries hitting 50MBps
 

Homerboy

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try these too if you haven't already
https://www.dslreports.com/tools

and i'm jealous of your internet speeds even if they aren't getting 1 Gb/s. I have 6 Mb/s DSL. :(

Thanks again. had 25Mb/s DSL as well. Promotion with TVetc expired (12 month thing).
Called, "threatened" to cancel unless they gave me intro rates for fiber. So now I get 1Gbps, lesser TV package and I don't have to listen to wife/kids complain about internet speeds at night :p
 

VirtualLarry

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Depending on your router (and if they supplied the router to go with your 1Gbit/sec service, then it should likewise be capable of 1Gbit/sec wired connection speeds), you might have to enable "Hardware NAT" or "CTF". I had to enable that on my AC68U/R running Tomato, otherwise I was capped using software routing at around 300Mbit/sec up and down.

I had Gigabit FIOS for some time, then I decided to cut back to 100Mbit/sec service, as I really couldn't tell all that much of a difference, with just me using it. (If you have a whole family / household using the connection, things might be different.)
 

Red Squirrel

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Chances are the end servers are your bottleneck. Not a lot of servers - even dedicated web servers, will have a full gigabit link. And even if they do, they probably won't be at zero percent usage when you're using them or they may not be dedicated by the data centre so their main pipe may possibly be saturated. Or any router/link along the way.

As a side note feel free to test using this: http://www.bbzzdd.net/1gbtest.bin

I happen to have a gig link to my web server. But as I said does not mean I'll be able to actually push that, but I don't have a lot of traffic in general so assuming the data centre handles it fine and there's no other bottlenecks I should get close.
 

Chaotic42

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I have the same service and removing my Ubiquiti router from the network moved me up from 600 to 920Mbps. Congrats on the new service. I'll be really disappointed when I move.
 

UNCjigga

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IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.

edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
 

Jaskalas

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Got Spectrum here, the base 60mb speed was recently bumped to 200mb.

I was happy with 60, more than pleased by 200. There is definitely no use in the world for more. Least not yet.
 

JoeBleed

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Quiet you. I have 3mpbs and if I wanted anything more I'd have to pay Spectrum 400% as much as I do now.

~sad Mr. T~ I pity the fool

They only offer 3 Mb/s where i live now. I can only imagine it's line quality and I seem to be noticing some bandwidth exhaust in the evening when trying to stream video. :( I also have no other viable option.
 
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Homerboy

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Well, did some more testing at night last night. With everyone offline I could get 916Mbps up and down.
I can sustain about 72Mbps from NGs while everyone else does their surfing and streaming and such and nobody bats an eye.
I have to say too, just browsing the internet, especially on my phone via WiFi is amazingly snappy. RDPing into my machine from work is smooth as silk too.
We've come a LONG way from 9600bps modems!
 

Homerboy

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yea, and every advancement made is consumed by gaudy, fugly, and often needlessly large graphics and auto playing videos. So much so, you think back and say, you know, i miss old simple websites with maybe just a low res logo and no flash or flash equivalent.

Yeap. I make this comment quite often. When we were on dialup, websites had to be simpler and more "to the point" so they loaded in a tolerable amount of time (no comment on how long it took those.... *ahem* jpgs I was always downloading though) But now that we all have decent speed, designers throw every stupid little thing to slow the process down. A lot of that is "weight" is thrown on the local user's PC too - having to fire up java, flash, embedded this and that - if you dont have a SSD, you're screwed.